Elastic heel for boots and shoes.



c. M. JAGGBRS. ELASTIC HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES APPLICATION FILED DEO.18, 1908.

Patented Apr. 6, 1909 H. A a

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CHARLES u. JAGG-ERS, or manna, oitmnona.

.nLAsTro HEEL-FOR Boo'rs AND snons.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented. Aprilfi, isoe;

Application filed. December 18, 1908. Serial No. 65,116. i

To all whom it may concern: I

Be itknown that I, CHARLES citizen of the United States,residing at 'iliciklcster, county otPittsburg, State of Oklahoma, have inventedcertain'new and useful Improvements in- Elastic Heels; for

Boots and Shoes); and I dohereby-declare the following tobe a-full, clear, and exact de'- scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the 1 art to which it appertainsto make anduse the same.

I The invention .relatesltoelastic heels or treads for boots, shoes andth'e like, and has for 1ts ob ect,to provide a treadof rubber or similar elastic material ,having embedded therein wear pieces, the outer ends of which lie substantially in the plane of the tread surface, said we'ar-pieces'being provided at their inner ends with tongues to afford nail enga mg members by means of which the tread is secured to the heel.

The invention also contemplates .pro-

vision of animproved formof .wear piece capable of being made in continuous' lengths from sheet metal, the. wear piece I-for each tread comprising as an integral-structure a "series of bent tubular. sections, connecting links or bars betweenthesame and perforated tongues bent over tofclose, the upper portionsof the respectiveutubular sections and forming nail engaging members."

} theaccompanying drawings,Figure l is a sideelevation, partly insection, of a shoe having an elastic tread involving the tion. Fig. 2 is aplan view (if-the bottom of i the shoe. Fig; 3 is a perspective view of the Wear-piece before the same is applied to the tread. Fig. 4 illustrates a sheet. metal blank from which thewear piece is formed.

.elastic body portion ofthe heel tread, Which Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the of rubber or other suit able res hent material. Embedded Within the body portion 1, during the operation oi inolt ling or otherwise formingthe tread section, is a conmay be formed nected series of generallytubularmembers in cross section, the outer end of which lies of which the tread isse ured tg 2, which may, if desired, be leftopen at one side to produce a generally horseshoe shape substantially in the plane of the' tread surface, said tubular members having-their 1nner-ends closed by tongues ibent at right angles to the body of the tubular members, said provided with a perfomeans tongues each being ration 5 adapted to. receive nails ,6 b

6 shoe;

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of the tread.

inventhe elastic tread maybeq ively secured to the heel of the shoe, asm-- (ligated in Figs. 1' and 2.

only serve to increase the life andldurability of the tread, but will prevent the latter wear ing unevenly and becoming distorted or de formed, and Will, moreover, ailord eilicient means for attaching the tread to the heel :ofv the shoe, Likewise the positive.- connection 01' the several tubular membersinto an,1-n-- tegral-structure will preventany-of the said members becoming loose and dropping out In making up the wear pieces, I iind it desirable reform the same from sheet metal by stamping from such sheet metal blanks oi the character illustrated in Fig. i and in any'desired lengths. in working the blank.

into the fin'shed Wear piece, the rectangular portions ofthe blank are bent'into the tul ar or horseshoe form indicated m Fig. 3,; and

the perforated tongues are bent down to close the upper ends of the tubular members, the connecting-links'or bars 3 extending between the inner edges of successivetulmlar sections. After the blanks have been thus iormedintothe Wear pieces, the latter are bent or curved, as in Fig. 3, to lie within the finished tread, as indicated in lug. 2, after which each Wear piece'is applied to the botthe rubber or other tom of the mold and I elastic material. iormmg the tread is run into the mold and subsequently, vulcanized or otherwise treated in the usual manner.

. When the. tread is completed, the Wear piece will occupy the relation shown inFigs. l and 2, disposed'about theouter edge of the heel with the outer ends of the tubular members lying substantially in the plane of the tread surfaceand the, inneror tongue ends embedded ,Within' the elastic body 1 at a point about midway thethickness thereof.

The'connecting links or-bars 3 are likewise embedded in and surrounded by the elastic -material of the b0dy portion and serve to materially stifien said body-p015 tion againstlateral deformation. By passing' nails through the .perforatedtongues .4, firmly and effect n ill be apparent that instead of making links or-bars between the vsame. and .per-

the tubular members horseshoe shaped in eross section, they mey bef madesubstanf tially annular.- p WhatIclaim is:" s I 1. A'Wear piece for elastic heel treads cornpris'ing as an integral sheet metal structure} a series of bent tubular sections, connecting.

forated tongues bent over to olosethe upper and forming 'nail engaging members;

2. In it heel tread, an elastic "lift or heel section and an integral wear piece embedded in presence of portions? of therespective tubul sectlons 4 .J. W. TOWNSEND,

between the-same and-perforated tongues ".bent over. to cloee the upper portions of the respective tubular sections-and forming nail,

engaging members In testimony whereof I a *2 my signature, two Witnesses. v- CHARLES M. JAGGERS. .Withesses:

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